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Root Verb
خبط
xabaʈ
to hit
خ ب ط
Regular Form I sound verb. Means 'to hit' or 'to bump into', as opposed to the Form II 'خبط' (khabbat) which means 'to knock'.
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Past Affirmative
أنا
I — "I hit"
How these tenses work
The present tense
Person prefixes, plus the dialect's marker for "now" or "usually".
The past tense
One stem, eight endings.
The future
One small prefix or word in front of the present.
Saying "not"
Negating verbs, nouns and adjectives.
Roots and verb forms (Form I–X)
How three root letters and a pattern make a verb.
Verb classes: sound, hollow, defective, doubled
Why some verbs change shape when they conjugate.